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Pet Food Recalls

Vitakraft Vita Smart Hedgehog Food recall for Salmonella

Vitakraft Sun Seed Inc. of Weston, Ohio, USA recalled one lot of Vitakraft Vita Smart Hedgehog Food because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

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UK pet food exports to EU face Brexit challenges

To ensure continuity of trade between the U.K. and EU, in general terms, UK pet food producers who export to the EU or are planning must adapt to changes.

Brexit may have a significant impact on British pet food businesses trying to export their products to other European countries. | (Iryna Kuznetsova | iStock.com)

Pet Food Safety

Pet food employee, facility safety in a post-COVID world

The safety of pet food production employees and the facilities they work in has seen additional scrutiny in the wake of COVID-19.

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Pet Food Safety

Automation gains interest as pet food safety evolves

2020 has left in its wake a number of pet food safety challenges that technology, particularly automation, is prepared to meet.

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Pet Food Regulations

AAFCO holds ‘Mid-Year’ Meeting, labeling topics discussed

Labeling modernization updates and the definition of ‘labeling’ were both covered, among other food-related topics, at the AAFCO Mid-Year Meeting held in January 2021.

AAFCO’s Mid-Year Meeting had a full docket of topics to cover in various committees. | (monkeybusinessimages | iStock.com)

Pet Food Safety

Mycotoxin pet food recalls provide cautionary safety tale

Even for pet food manufacturers whose products do not contain ingredients typically at risk for mycotoxins, the recent Midwestern recall offers lessons.

Though corn is prone to mycotoxin contamination, other pet food ingredients can be susceptible, too. l (Andrea Gantz | WATT Global Media)

5 ways to avoid aflatoxin in pet food ingredients

As the recall of potentially aflatoxin-contaminated dog food goes international and a lawsuit over dozens of pet deaths goes to court, dog, cat and other pet food manufacturers can learn how to avoid their own tragic and costly recalls.

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Pet Food Recalls

Aflatoxin pet food recall goes international; 110 deaths

On January 25, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration added a list of countries to which the recalled product may have been exported by Midwestern Pet Foods.

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Confusion over GMO corn in US pet food exports to Mexico

A decree ends genetically modified corn imports to Mexico by 2024. However, exactly what this means for the pet food industry is uncertain. Meanwhile, landraces are losing ground to varieties developed outside corn’s crib in Mexico.

A tourist's dog sits outside a church in Bernal, Queretaro, Mexico. | (Quasarphoto | BigStock.com)

Pet Food Market

Mars UK recalls Chappie, Pedigree dog foods for vitamin D

Mars Petcare UK is recalling several of its dog food products because they may contain high levels of vitamin D which exceed the maximum permitted intake, according to the UK Food Standards Agency.

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Toxicologist, vet catch dog food toxin after early deaths

During the stress of the pandemic and political unrest in the U.S., pet food companies, government regulators, diagnostics laboratories and other need to work together and remain vigilant to other threats.

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70 pets dead; Sportmix High Energy pet food recall grows

By January 11, more than 70 pets had died after eating Sportmix High Energy pet foods, according to reports submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Sportmix Pet Food Recall Aflatoxin

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